November 2007

11/28/2007

OK, a lot has happened since the last post, the major event being our actually living in the littlehouseonthehillside. Yes, it is 'finished', after a fashion, and life is grand.What is decidedly not too grand is the status of this blog, which is very much like an ambitious vegetable garden. Started in spring with the best of intentions and energy, it showed great promise. Then, you fall a week behind in the weeding. Then another week. Soon, it is a cumulative disaster, and you couldn't possibly ever catch up, so you just sort of walk by the garden with guiltily averted eyes. What was once ordered beauty has become a tangle of dandelions, dead flowers and rotten zucchinni. Yes, my blog has become akin to rotten zucchinni.It would be futile to pick up where we left off, so I think what I will do is just give you a little update on how things are going right now. Later, I'll try to fill in what happened over the last three months or so in a series of flashbacks, much like the hit TV show 'Lost.' If I'm really good, each entry will end with a cliffhanger, leaving you anxiously awaiting the next entry. Or, when my riveting and hilarious building experiences are converted into a quirky yet poignant independent film that becomes the sleeper hit of next summer, the 'lost journal entries' will become part of the DVD extras, and you can find out what happened that way. Or, just give me a call and I'll just tell you what happened. At any rate, here we are:

Our little house is cozy, comfortable, and---a complete mess. We still have boxes everywhere, and as of yesterday there was a pile of lumber in the front hall. We work every day to get it a little less cluttered, and it is slowly evolving into a semblance of order. Art is going up, meals are being cooked, shelving and clothes rods added. But as the temperature begins to drop and we see the first couple of snowfalls blanket our woods, it feels absolutely fabulous to add another log to the woodstove and not have to be up on a roof attaching a ridge cap.There are a bunch of new pictures over in the picture menu on the right. Here are a few highlights: